One word
Just one word explains how they play so well with "bad" fundamentals, consistency.
The truth is that you can use any stroke at all to deliver the cue tip to the cue ball where you need to and if you allow for the idiosyncrasies of the stroke you can shoot good pool. You can shoot good pool with horrible form if you are very consistent. However, and here is the key, it is much easier to be consistent with good fundamentals.
The best in many areas are often not the ones that start out with the most natural gifts but the ones who are most determined and persistent. Emulating them and putting in the years of effort that they have put in may get you where you want to be or you can take a shortcut by developing good fundamentals. Then you only have to learn the shots, not learn different compensations for each shot to take into account your poor fundamentals.
Hu
nyjoe14.1 said:Not trying to start a big argument here, but if some of the top players of out time have bad “fundamentals” how is it that they play at this exceptionally high level?
If form is the foundation around which are respective games are made how is this possible?
Which is to say some may put to much emphasis on this.....................?
Just one word explains how they play so well with "bad" fundamentals, consistency.
The truth is that you can use any stroke at all to deliver the cue tip to the cue ball where you need to and if you allow for the idiosyncrasies of the stroke you can shoot good pool. You can shoot good pool with horrible form if you are very consistent. However, and here is the key, it is much easier to be consistent with good fundamentals.
The best in many areas are often not the ones that start out with the most natural gifts but the ones who are most determined and persistent. Emulating them and putting in the years of effort that they have put in may get you where you want to be or you can take a shortcut by developing good fundamentals. Then you only have to learn the shots, not learn different compensations for each shot to take into account your poor fundamentals.
Hu